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Some of them measure 10 inches round, and this in a house not heated. In 
my opinion it is not necessary to heat a latej house, and it should not be more 
than 8 feet wide, as the whole of the trees are then near the glass. This I 
think very much better than 16 feet wide for Peaches. A friend of mine has 
a house double the width of ours, but the width of the house does not improve 
the fruit in any way. I have been told that a cold Peach-house is of no good 
whatever, but 1 find it to be just the reverse, as I consider we have done in 
three years with only the assistance of glass, what it would have taken ten 
years to have done the same without, as there is scarcely a single square 
foot of trellis in the house but what is covered. We have another Peach- 
house, 30 feet by 10. This we intend to heat with a four-inch flow and return 
hot-water pipe from an early vinery which joins it, as all through September we 
were overdone with Peaches, and by doing this I hope to gain at least another 
six weeks to the Peach season. 
Mr. Tillery, at Welbeck, has given an account of his glass case as wall 
protection. I hope he will favour us with the result, as it would be a step 
in the right direction to know what is being done in other places. 
Elsenham Hall Gardens. William Plester. 
WINTER-BLOOMING ROSES. 
This day, November 22nd, I have before me a vase of Poses, a fit and beau¬ 
tiful ornament for the drawing-room. Some of the blooms would warm the heart 
of the most fastidious rosarian, by their brilliancy of colour and beauty of form. 
These I have just cut from standards in the open garden, where they have been 
exposed to all weathers, without the least protection whatever. 
I will here give the names of eighteen kinds that are now in good bloom, 
placing them in their order of merit:— 
Senateur Yaisse 
General Jacqueminot 
Gloire de Dijon 
Madame W. Paul 
Murillo 
Madame Julie Daran 
Triomplie des Beaux Arts 
Madame Boutin 
Baronne Gonella 
Alphonse Damazin 
Prince Camille de Rohan 
Beauty of Waltham 
Souvenir de Lady Eardley 
Anguste Mie 
La Reine 
Duchess of Orleans 
Celine Forestier 
Victor Verdier. 
It will be seen, from the foregoing list, that the introductions of the last 
few years have generally exhibited more of the Perpetual character, and one 
more suited to our climate than those we were in the habit of receiving eight or 
ten years ago. It must be borne in mind that I am writing from a cold district 
in the midland counties, where two or three sharp frosts have occurred, and 
where the wind and rain, during the last week, have been very violent. It there¬ 
fore gives me much pleasure to see that the greater portion of the Poses sent out 
during the last two, three, or four years are of a more robust growth, with more 
freedom of bloom, and of a much more hardy constitution than the Perpetual 
varieties we were formerly acquainted with. 
The Cedars, Castle Bromwich. Charles Jas. Perry. 
THE TRUE BLACK ALICANTE GRAPE. 
Would some of your correspondents have the goodness to state what dif¬ 
ference there is between the Black Prince and the Black Alicante Grapes? The 
former I have known from my boyhood ; but in what has been always shown to 
me as the Alicante I could never see any difference between it and the Black 
Prince. In some places I visited this season I have had the Black Prince pointed 
out to me as the Alicante. I believe some authorities say they are synonymous. 
